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IAN PEEL’S LINER NOTES

There are three words that gave me a real feeling of excitement in my early years of loving and collecting vinyl. And I’ve realised they still have the same effect, 30 years later…

Those three words (or four, if you ignore the hyphen)? ‘Seven-inch double pack’. Something which, in this digital day and age, record labels would call a ‘bundle’. Two 7”s, extending a single release from A- and B-side to A-, B-, C- and D-side, and usually packaged in a gatefold sleeve. So much more than a simple bundle, to me, it’s a fascinating format. Not least because you can see why artists and labels loved them – for completely different reasons.

About Long Live Vinyl

Issue 19 of Long Live Vinyl is now on sale. 50 years on from the release of Jimi Hendrix’s career masterpiece, Electric Ladyland, we speak to some of the key figures in the making of the album, flick through Jimi’s entire record collection and round up 20 essential Hendrix releases on vinyl that no true fan should be without.
Elsewhere this issue, we get the inside track on Spiritualized‘s first new album in six years from Jason Pierce and meet Anna Calvi to hear how she made her boldest and most articulate record to date, the outstanding The Hunter.
We also reflect on a trio of 50th anniversaries, as Wayne Kramer tells Long Live Vinyl about half a century in the MC5 and we take in-depth looks at Van Morrison’s Astral Weeks and The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society – the latest in BMG’s Art Of The Album series.
Echo & The Bunnymen guitarist Will Sergeant gives us a private tour of his record collection, The Trip heads to the East Midlands to visit the record shops of Nottingham, and we meet the team behind Eel Pie Records in Twickenham.
If all that’s not enough, we bring you the most extensive range of new album, reissue, turntable and accessory reviews, plus expert buying advice, anywhere on the newsstand.